David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism examines the role of scepticism and doubt in Wallace’s work, showing......more

This book recognises women poets as incisive participants in nineteenth-century socio-literary history. It shows that wo......more

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge was a key figure in the history of both women’s poetry and fin-de-siècle poetics. Coleridge, th......more

French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which ta......more

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This book examines a wide sweep of prominent Black and Asian British poets, from Linton Kwesi Johnson and Jean ’Binta’ B......more

An introduction to key concepts in international relations and strategy through the interstellar narratives of Cixin Liu......more

A defense of poetry from a towering figure of the medieval Persianate world. Written in 1294 as the introduction to a bo......more

An accessible companion to Homer’s Odyssey that illuminates its timeless lessons on change, resilience, and the search f......more

For some outdoor enthusiasts, the word "wilderness" means "free of people". This book shows that many beloved stories of......more

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Essays on the Mexican Revolution and its literary and cultural legacies The Mexican Revolution lives on in literature, f......more

Essays on the Mexican Revolution and its literary and cultural legacies The Mexican Revolution lives on in literature, f......more

Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets examines how contemporary Japanese American and Mexican Americ......more

Global Literature and the Digital analyzes the continued impact of the digital revolution upon contemporary literature. ......more

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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Rivals in Wisdom offers a fresh p......more

Fans of Batman are used to seeing the Caped Crusader associate with the likes of Superman and Wonder Woman, but what if ......more

In the decades either side of 1700, England witnessed a major public debate about the immortality of the soul. At its ce......more

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesia......more

When Where the Wild Grape Grows was published in 2005 by the University of Massachusetts Press, it was the first book-le......more

The first book-length study of Dorothy West, now with new writings and insights Originally published in 2005, WheretheWi......more

The four prose tracts Milton published between August 1643 and March 1645 on the subject of divorce constitute an undera......more

In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of......more

In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of......more

Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection pres......more

Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection pres......more

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of ’the West’, in the works of can......more

From a range of academic and practice-led perspectives, this book explores how a combination of place-based writing and ......more

The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features con......more

An examination of how ancient environments were socio-culturally constructed as responsive living entities that could un......more

Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature......more

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O’Brien’s attempt to forge a commercially suc......more

Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how......more

Through an examination of paratextuality in late antique literature, this collection of essays reconsiders the importanc......more

A majestic literary history, revealing the power and possibilities of silence found in literary works. Silence: A Litera......more

The first English-language study on contemporary Chinese children’s literature, focusing on the theoretical framing of a......more

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An important addition to contemporary scholarship on Plautus and Plautine comedy, provides new essays and fresh insights......more

For many, Mary Wollstonecraft functions as Western feminism’s indisputable origin point and anchor. Once scorned as scan......more

How should we speak of humanism today? To answer this question, Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf turns to Montaigne.......more

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The story of Odysseus continues to capture the popular imagination from fiction like Madeline Miller’s Circe to Christop......more

A beautifully giftable anthology of some of Shakespeare’s most evocative verse, illustrated by scores of botanical water......more

Reframing traditional conceptions of ecology Ecologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on ......more

Reframing traditional conceptions of ecology Ecologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on ......more

Blue Roses documents a queer response to one of the most popular American playwrights of the twentieth century: Tennesse......more

Dick of Devonshire by Thomas Heywood dramatises England’s disastrous 1625 Cadiz expedition through the story of a foot-s......more

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2025 Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mist......more

John Polidori’s novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps ’the most influential horror story of all time’ (Frayling). Polido......more

John Ford’s tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely ......more

Women and madness in the early Romantic novel returns madness to a central role in feminist literary criticism through a......more

The idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016). This book shows that Hill’......more

The politics of Middle English parables examines the dynamic intersection of fiction, theology and social practice in la......more

Digital Combat examines how contemporary warfare and historical traumas reshape the study and practice of film in Easter......more

Many biographies of Mark Twain cover his entire life, while others focus on specific periods, especially his later years......more

Queer Forms and Pronouns is a journey into the world of gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in literature. Pronouns are ......more

Joining the unfinished conversation between the satirist Jonathan Swift and the critic Edward Said, The Last Amateur arg......more

Joining the unfinished conversation between the satirist Jonathan Swift and the critic Edward Said, The Last Amateur arg......more

Dedicated to discussing writings of the European Renaissance that dissented from the dominant values of the period. Who ......more

This book investigates the death and suffering of domestic dogs that occurs on the peripheries of classic American novel......more

How a fascination with animal consciousness, perception, and intelligence shaped American fiction in the twentieth centu......more

A compelling new analysis of the insights and the illusions embedded in writings from the New World Perceived in Print u......more

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